Peacock is a funny word. These are the first words of wisdom. I shared with my Instagram audience in my first post on January 21st
2012 and while not a lot has changed I still post many words of wisdom and inspirational captions such as: smile
because one day all your teeth will crack and rot and fall out of your face and all you have left is gingivitis gums to
show off, Some
Things on the other hand though have changed
mainly my makeup skills I
hope. so, let's scroll all the way back to the past and recreate my very first Instagram post
This time with effort because here's kind of the embarrassing thing
I was already working at Mac when I took this picture in 2012 I was better at makeup than this picture
lets on in 2012 here are some other examples from the same year
I'm pretty convinced. This was one of my lazier makeup days
And I was just posting on Instagram because I had no idea it was going to turn out to be
What it ended up being. still..
Still it is the first thing people see on my page if they scroll all the way back
So let's see if we can see any signs of improvement over the years. First, lets start with these brows
This eyebrow. I don't know if you can tell my hair is pretty dark brown in this picture. It looks like and
My eyebrows are like a light warm
brown
Questionably orange, it's got a really intense Instagram filter on it no doubt
But but the warmness of the brow is truly disturbing. Let's start with a less warm brow color
In
My defense I will add that before the brow boom of 2014, slash
2015 super clean defined brows were just not really in I
Also, don't think I put much time into the color of my brows back then
I just kind of use whatever eye pencil. I had laying around so now. I'm very strategic about the color of my brows and
I tend to like them darker than whatever hair color
I have going on especially when I'm blonde I think blonde with darker brows looks really lovely but there
That's weird, because not only does it not match my hair. It's lighter and warm than my hair color
I'd like to blame that one on the Instagram filter, but I'm pretty sure it's just me and
I know I know not everyone would even like the super defined brow that I do now
But I prefer it this way because it's a lot easier for me to control
When I'm working with invisible hairs to begin with something that I also wish I knew about back then that I know about now are
Brow mascara wands these make filling in my invisible brows a lot easier now don't get me wrong
I still have bad brow days in fact some of you are watching right now thinking today is one of them
But brow beauty is in the eye of the brow holder
Next the eye shadow okay, it looks like all I have going on for the eye shadow is is some green in the corner
But it's not even blended past the crease it's also uneven in the crease. I'm not it's
It actually looks like I probably have a light shimmery
ivory type shadow and a teal or green shimmery eyeshadow
Somewhat blended into the corner. This is very different than what I would do today because I actually avoid shimmery shadows nowadays
I think there's a time and a place for them, but back then
I really chose matte shadows because I always found this shimmery ones prettier so why choose a matte green shadow
When you could choose a shimmery one? my viewpoints have changed so to do this over. I'm going to pick a matte
Teal ish greenish shadow
And see if maybe there's a place to work in some shimmer along the way. I'm going to start by putting a matte white shadow
all over the lid
I'm going to take this dark green this lighter green and this teal all matte
Kind of mix them together and start blending that into the corner this time going into the crease a bit
That is already better than what is in my picture
then I'm going to start blending this out with the same brush that I put the light on I
Still have this scar over my eye, that makes it really hard to blend over
That much has not changed. Did I put any shadow on my lower lashline? I honestly can't tell, but I'm going to same green colors
Just to complete the eye a bit more I'm guessing
this is the exact color I had on my lid because I used this eyeshadow almost every single day when I worked at Mac I
Can't remember the name of it saved my life, but I think this was on my lid
So I'm going to add a little bit of that just on the inner corner this time not all over the place
And in the lower inside corner
Still so pretty. On to the eyeliner, and honestly, It's not that bad in this picture. It's pretty clean
The wing could be sharper the wing has grown over time. This is a pretty puny wing in my opinion, but
I'd say this is not the worst part of it, so let's do that real quick
That's an improvement
Mascara. even looking at the mascara in this picture. It's interesting because my lashes are super clumpy looking
Because back, then I didn't wear falsies
I wasn't addicted yet
So I really packed the mascara on back then because even if they were clumpy as long as they were long
I was happy. Now I like these little skinny mascara wands
Because they get out the clumps really well, and they're easy to apply so the biggest change happening here is not the mascara
But the fact that I am gluing fake hair onto my eyeballs right now
Best improvement in the last six years surprisingly it looks like I have contoured my cheek. Let's do that
And for the lip it is a warm nude lip something I still wear all the time
My earrings are pretty much the same. I took one out here, but I am missing one other
Oh yeah.
Hmm, I never wear stuff like this anymore. I had to find these feather earrings off Amazon and last, but certainly not least
recreating
the picture
must look sad
and thoughtful
and pensive
Oh, shoot. one last thing how can I forget?
There we go yes, this is fake
It was not fake back then but it is for now so besides the opportunity to be self-deprecating
I really just wanted to show you guys that everyone starts somewhere and
Practice does help you improve over time you might not notice it it might seem like small little increments of progress
But over time it adds up and don't be too hard on yourself. Just keep going the best part
Is that I might look back in 6 years and think that this look is pretty mediocre
Compared to what I can do then because there's always room for improvement
Peacock is still a funny word
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